A complete overhaul of the way people navigate the internet has been given the go ahead in Paris.
The net's regulator Icann voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed.
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Some believe there could be at least 5,000 new top-level domains, but others say there could be demand for billions.
(BBC)
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